Pours a dark golden orange color with hazy tangerine hues and frothy 1.5 finger head that very slowly settles into a lasting ring. The glass is left coated with chunks of soapy lacing.

Floral hop aroma with some grassy pine needle, sweet fruit and biscuity caramel malt. Soil like with pine and grass followed by orange peel and grapefruit. Underneath there is some bread and caramel malt.

Creamy medium body with a crisp, spicy hop bite that lingers over the fruit and malt backbone into a faintly dry finish. Grassy pine flavor along with orange zest and a strong grapefruit presence. Malt backbone is strong with hints of caramel, biscuit and toffee. Usually don't like this strong of a malt profile but it provides nice balance here. Pretty good and very easy to put down.

Sampled @ Big Time, April 2007
This beer has a copper color with a touch of haze and is topped by a wispy, light colored head. The nose seems quite muted after drinking the Perspective IPA and the taste is quite a bit maltier. There is a nice sweetness that accentuates a punchy hop character of pine, fruity citrus and some herbal notes. You can definitely taste a crystal malt character here; notes of caramel and a touch of toasty biscuit flavors. The finish has a pine-like, bitter character that lingers on for quite some time.

So was this beer named for something we might have heard in the second set of a Grateful Dead show? Don't know. But Scarlet has a fresh, on-the-bine hop smell, so immediate and compelling, you could close your eyes and imagine yourself in Yakima. It shows a big-bubbled head on a luminous gold body that's a fair shade darker than Big Time's Maine Thing Pale. Abstract lace forms abundantly and freely.

Hop flavor integrates artfully into the malt matrix creating a floral sweetness touching upon pinesap. This then tapers with a sharp smack of bittering. The English lineage of Cascade and Chinook hops makes itself known in combination with contemporary American styles courtesy of Columbus.

Scarlet gains enthusiasm upon warming. Despite its rotund malt body, the unfiltered green elements intrude with a slight measure of astringency. Still, a good all-around IPA.

Poured into bubble pint glass. Poured a hazy orangeish-gold color with an inch of off-white head that had great retention and left moderate lacing. A pleasant hop aroma that is not overpowering. A bold citrus hop flavor hits up front and then lingers on the finish. Above average body gives a solid foundation for the hops to shine on. Very drinkable, depending on your tolerance for citrus flavors. An above average IPA from a great local brewery, worth seeking out.

Live reviewed from Collins Pub in Seattle. Got a nice full pint of the brew, about 3/4" of khaki coloured head that's thick and sticks like a devil. Body is evenly fogged and a nice dark amber, edging on orange.

Smell is indeed quite hoppy - pine and earthy spice. Jumped right in to get a taste - very sweet for the low abv, with very fruity hop expression. Red apple peel. Malt is pretty retrained - nothing overly toasted, though there is a notable fresh-grain taste of oatmeal. Clay notes. Yeast is decidedly new-world and very clean. Afternotes are a touch alpha heavy and salty.

A sublimely full mouthfeel for such a low gravity. Good carbonation balances this well. a great standard IPA for chewing and quaffing alike.

On tap in a pint glass at a restaurant.Dark bronze appearance somewhat cloudy. Served a little too cold.Balanced, mild floral hoppiness. A little malt forward and light for an IPA.Very nice flavors though. An easy drinker. Would make a nice session beer.

This beer is quite different on the hand pump than the traditional tap. Its light amber with oragnish hues and a 1 finger off white head that leaves moderate lacing. The nose has touches of floral and darker citrus tones which I think are easier to detect in the casked version than the tapped one. The hops strike early and first on this brew but the malt really does show up in abundance to balance out the taste into a long wonderful bitter finish. Maybe a touch of honey-like sweetness at last swallow. The mouthfeel is crisp for a hand-pumped brew and yet medium-full bodied. This is a very drinkable beer, and its 4.7% abv makes it a great session beer.